Jung II-woo started an account in Daum Cafe named “Ilwoostory” in 2007. This was and is his oldest social media account. He used this acccount to inform fans about his events and to communicate with fans. Daum Cafe is from South Korea, it is like Facebook for the USA and Weibo for China. But as he started to grow out of the border of South Korea, he opened social accounts under other countries platforms and it became evident that he needed something in English bigger, that could inform fans from any country.

His management decided to open a sort of “Ilwoostory 2”, a website in English that could benefit any fans in the world: http://www.jungilwoo.com.

At the same time he opened an official Japanese Website called Smilwoo. This was his announcement on Tweeter on July 7, 2012.

I don’t understand a few things. First off, why did he opened a separate Japanese Club, Website. Why didn’t he house all his official Jung II-woo business in one place only… http://www.jungilwoo.com? Wouldn’t that have easier?

I think there may be limitations in the different countries and powers that I guess that I don’t know about…that have made it this way. I know that there is no Facebook in China for example.

Anyways, I plan to expand on this as the story unfolds… I have many questions… like: What made him abandon his official website later on? What are my chances as an international fan to get tickets for say an event in Japan?